In Google's latest filing, the search giant says that its
damages expert "strongly disagrees" with the assessment that
it could owe Oracle "no less than $8.8 billion" for its use
of certain parts of the programming language Java in its Android
operating system.

The next phase of the case is about to head to court. A jury will
decide if Google had the right to use certain parts of
Oracle's programming language, Java, for free, or if it owes
Oracle damages for its use that has been going on for
years.

Google says that Dr. James Kearl, the damages expert
that the court hired, came up with the "no less than $8.8
billion" value by taking Oracle's theory on how to calculate how
much Google owed "at face value."

Kearl came up with that number based on a calculation of
the amount of profits that Google earned as a result of
Android, which Google doesn't report, but the company says that
"several of [Kearl's] opinions on disgorgement are ungrounded in
the facts of the case or based on improper analytical
frameworks."